i am using to profiles: development and production
development should be active on default, production should be used when i am releasing.
In my pom.xml i have:
[...]
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-beta-9</version>
<configuration>
<useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
<goals>deploy</goals>
<arguments>-Pproduction</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
[...]
<profiles>
...